Russell-Cotes Paintings – The Boudoir Paintings & Sculptures List – The Boudoir The Garden of the Cardinal John Fulleylove (1845-1908) Oil on canvas John Fulleylove was born in Leicester. He originally trained as an architect with local firm "Shenton and Baker", before becoming an artist in watercolours and oils. He exhibited widely in England from 1871 at venues in London such as the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Fine Art Society, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and in many other regional towns and cities. He became a member of the RI in 1879 and the ROI in 1883. Abroad, he painted in France, Italy, Greece and the Middle East. His watercolour illustrations appeared in several travel books, such as those by A & C Black. BORGM 00854 Princess Pauline Borghese, 19th/20th Century Sculptor Unattributed Parian Pauline Bonaparte (20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825) was an Italian noblewoman, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla in Italy, an imperial French Princess and the Princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first Emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802. Later, she married Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince Russell-Cotes Paintings – The Boudoir of Sulmona. Her only child, Dermide Leclerc, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his principality, Elba. A Trompe l’oeil with a Vignette, 1890 Hans Zatzka (1859-1945) Oil on panel Hans Zatzka was an Austrian Academic and fantasy painter. He has sometimes been known as P. Ronsard, Pierre de Ronsard, or H. Zabateri, and had signed many of his works as Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard, or Bernard Zatzka. The purpose of Zatzka's vast array of pseudonyms was to avoid penalties of breaking contracts which limited the amount of artwork he could sell. This has caused some art databases to conflate Zatzka's work under the pseudonym Joseph Bernard with the French sculptor with the same name. In the late 19th and early 20th century, several pieces by Zazka were photographed and made into commercial and collectable postcards and in the 1920s, Zatzka's style became the decor of choice throughout Europe. Currently, most of Zatzka's paintings reside in private collections. BORGM 00274 Study of a Girls Head, 1890 Reginald Edward Arnold (1853-1928) Oil on panel Reginald Edward Arnold was a Surrey based painter who primarily focused on dramatic genre scenes. Some of his other work, La Fumeur and The Awakening: Reading Galileo can be found on the Balcony above the doorways on the East Wall. BORGM 00166 Russell-Cotes Paintings – The Boudoir The Smoker, 1890 Jose Benlliure y Gil (1855-1937) Oil in panel José Benlliure y Gil was one of the most successful Spanish painters of his day. He trained at the Academy in Valencia, and after living in Madrid, he moved to Italy where he resided between Rome and Assisi from 1879 to 1912. He was director of the Spanish Academy in Rome from 1903 and exhibited throughout Europe and in South America, being honoured with numerous awards. Despite gaining critical success as an innovator for his grandiose historical scenes with symbolist content, inspired by his friend Domenico Morelli, he remained a prolific painter of anecdotal scenes typical of commercial genre painting. These included Spanish costume subjects, tavern scenes with picturesque ‘cavaliers' mostly set in the seventeenth century, and oriental subjects which show the influence of his compatriot Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874). The Russell-Cotes painting The Smoker is a typical example of such work produced throughout his career. This small cabinet picture shows a self-satisfied buccaneer type, hand on hip, legs apart, sword slung over his shoulder as he enjoys a pipe. His breeches are viridian and his sash and garters tawny red. His wide white shirt collars draw attention to his bearded face. Behind him, hidden by the gloom, are a crudely carved wooden chair and chest draped with garments, above which, in the manner of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting, hangs a caged canary, alluding here to the subject's bondage to the narcotic of his pipe. BORGM 00267 Russell-Cotes Paintings – The Boudoir Woman playing a Lyre, 1890 Cesare Saccaggi (1869-1934) Oil on canvas Cesare Saccaggi was an Italian painter and pupil of Andrea Gastaldi and Pier Celestino Gilardi. In 1895 he took part in the Permanente in Milan and appeared in three successive editions of the Venice Biennale. At the beginning of the Twentieth century he stayed in Paris where he took part in the Universal Exposition and exhibited in three editions of the Salon, devoting himself to graphic activity in collaboration with the Maison Goupil. BORGM 01917 A Girl’s Head, 1875 Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830-1895) Oil on canvas Charles Sillem Lidderdale was a British artist whose work often focused on portraits of young women in outdoor settings. Lidderdale exhibited 36 paintings at the Royal Academy between 1856 and 1893, with other work shown extensively at the British Institute, and Suffolk Street. His career was marred by eyesight trouble, and although lengthy treatment allowed him to continue his work, he had to give up watercolour, a medium which required a more precise eye than oils. Nonetheless, his watercolours were admired both for their technique and colour. BORGM 01313 .